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Focus on Trauma

The Impact of Out-of-Hospital Time and Prehospital Intubation on Return of Spontaneous Circulation following Resuscitative Thoracotomy in Traumatic Cardiac Arrest

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Pages 580-588 | Received 27 Jun 2023, Accepted 16 Oct 2023, Published online: 19 Dec 2023

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